Ivy Ellen Wedding Invitations & Wedding Stationery

Welcome to our wedding invitations website and thank you for considering Ivy Ellen for your wedding stationery. There are a huge number of variables to consider when choosing your wedding stationery, so we’ve done our best to try and simplify the process and make it easy for you:

Things to consider when choosing your wedding stationery

Your Wedding Theme

Some couples like to have a theme for their wedding but there’s no obligation! If you are trying to decide on a theme however, think about personal styles that you love and reflect you as a couple. You might start with stylistic influences from the clothes you wear, or how you decorate your home, or from a meaningful trip or adventure you have taken together. For example - learning to dance might inspire a love of the twenties and an art deco theme, or a move to the country might inspire a country garden style for your wedding. Once you have a theme in mind it helps to narrow down your wedding stationery choices. We cater for lots of themes as well as offering a variety of bespoke options for our stationery.

Your Wedding Colours

If you have one, to some extent your wedding theme will inform the colour palette you choose your wedding stationery colours from. For example, a vintage or country themed wedding will often have pastel colours and floral prints. Don’t worry if you don’t have a theme in mind or are choosing not to have a theme. Have a think about the colours you like and what combination you would like to appear in your wedding. Check out our Great Combinations blog post which may help you narrow your choices down. Classic wedding colours are white, ivory and pinks.

Your Wedding Stationery Budget

Magazines typically recommend 3 to 4% of your wedding budget be allocated to wedding stationery, which will include your invites and all of your on the day items like orders of service, table plans, menus, etc. We have a range of prices: from cheap wedding invitations starting at £1.20 through to luxury wedding invitations that cost over £5. You can also save money on our site by choosing DIY wedding stationery options.

Your wedding venue and location

Consider how your stationery will fit with your venue. An obvious example would be choosing beach coloured or themed invitations for a beach wedding, but with any venue, try to tie-in the look and feel of your stationery. You might consider a rustic, wood style invite with a barn venue for instance. Or a flowery invite for a garden wedding. A vintage look can work really well with a marquee. Some wedding venues will provide certain wedding stationery items like menus as part of their package. It’s worth checking with your venue if this is the case as it can save you money, although be aware that the style will obviously be different to your main stationery.

Your partner

Consider how much your partner likes to be involved in your colour schemes and wedding stationery choices. It can be a nice way to connect in the planning of your wedding, although it’s not for everyone.

Trust your instinct

It is essential that you love your wedding stationery! It is your big day after all. Trust your instincts. If you don’t like the designs, keep looking until you find some that you do like. As much as we would love to make your wedding stationery for you, it’s more important to us that you choose us because you love our designs and they are what you want rather than just making do.

Delivery Details

We ship to customers worldwide and delivery is two weeks from order confirmation. We usually recommend you allow up to a month from choosing to receiving your stationery to allow plenty of time for you to proof your order. We do offer a fast track service which takes 5 working days and costs £50.

Our Printing process

We offer samples of all of our wedding invitations by post. You can order these from the individual product page when you find a design you like. Once you receive your samples, if you decide to place an order, we would make up a personal PDF invitation with your wedding details for you to proof via email. This allows you to the chance to change anything and sort out any mistakes before we go to press. All of our wedding stationery is printed on beautiful, high quality boards sourced from sustainable forests and is FSC accredited.

Why choose Ivy Ellen?

Feedback tells us that our customers are happy brides and grooms who have enjoyed ordering Ivy Ellen wedding stationery that is unique to them and delivered to a high standard of quality and service. Our award winning wedding invitations have been featured in all of the top bridal magazines, at leading wedding shows, on wedding blogs and even in a wedding movie. You can read about all of this as well as discovering top tips on how to have the wedding of your dreams on our really useful blog called All Things Wedding. You can also read testimonials from our customers or see what customers say about us on our Facebook page.

Need more Help?

We hope you enjoy choosing your wedding stationery on our site and are always happy to put together a quote or answer any queries that you may have. Please do contact us by email at hello@ivyellen.com or on the phone at 0845 388 4403 (free from most BT landlines).

gifts for your wedding party:

"Thank you so much for our wedding invitations. They are perfect, beautiful design and quality. All our friends and family have said the most lovely invitations."Bettina, Newmarket

"I cannot rate the company and team highly enough. From the first enquiry to delivery dates nothing has been too much trouble. The products themselves are stunning and in comparison to other companies excellent value and quality." - Rachel, London